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Mar. 20, 2024

Hardened Antivirus

Currently only one substantially complete antivirus kit casts itself among FOSS, ClamAV. It actually consists of several different programs. Clamscan, an independent CLI scan utility; Freshclam, a database updater; Clamdscan, a multithreaded scanning daemon; and Clamonacc, a realtime on-access file checker that feeds items into Clamdscan.
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Mar. 7, 2024

Recovering From Bad Flashes

Whether you’re working with free or closed equipment, the underlying firmware can be a fragile beast. And neither are immune to the damages of human error.
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Feb. 24, 2024

The Normalization of Spyware

We shouldn’t refrain from admitting where we’ve lost ground or find ourselves on the losing side. It is something that may be obvious but is seldom formally voiced: spyware has been normalized.
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👄 Learning Human Languages (Japanese)
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